You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this episode 158. I'm your host Thomas Smith and I got some ranting to do.

I've been just so mad and upset and angered and everything about this Kavanaugh stuff.

And every time a new part of the news thing broke, I'd think,

oh, I want to cover this, I want to talk about this, and I think, you know, it's everywhere

we're saturated with it.

So I took to the Facebook group, and by the the way if you're a supporter of the show you get to join the exclusive Facebook group and

Answer questions like this. I just asked the group and I said hey hey guys you being my

employers and all essentially would you like an episode like this or is it

something you've you know you've kind of heard elsewhere you don't need to hear

more of and pretty pretty universally, everybody

said they would enjoy an episode like this.

And I'm glad because I also, I've said it before,

but I'm gonna say it again in case you haven't heard me say it before I think I said it first around the Kraus accusations the Lawrence Kraus accusations which I covered on the show

This is something that I think a skeptic movement would be perfect for.

If we had a nice healthy movement of skeptics who did a great job of

separating fact from falsehood and using evidence and evaluating sources of

evidence and what kind of thresholds of evidence we might need for certain

claims depending on what the claim is all that

good good solid old-fashioned skepticy stuff like just stuff you do you know

when you're evaluating a conspiracy theory or a or just a story or

someone's testimony or a criminal investigate whatever it is it's just it's

epistemology essentially is just evaluating what it is reasonable to believe in these

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